Overall, a pleasant enough guilty pleasure, though I think after this I’m ready for something more substantial next week. I also really liked how our heroine’s pretensions were deflated by the first few paragraphs being written in the exact same style that TNY uses for their Talk of the Town minibios, even if that wasn’t exactly the author’s intention.
Yeah, the plot probably does resemble a Sex in the City episode (I wouldn’t know), but it is improved considerably by the author’s helpful inclusion of the things that shuttle driver kid could have done to win the protagonist’s heart for the evening–suitable for highlighting for later reference, if you have the dead-tree version. But I still read it through to end, even with the awkward middle. I don’t disagree with any of the previous criticisms, and I would also add that some of the shifts in tone were more jarring than they needed to be, and that some of the funny stuff was probably meant to be poignant, while some of the poignant stuff was probably meant to be funny. What can I say? I can’t defend the fact that I enjoyed this cutesy lightweight pile of steaming dramedy, but I did. With a book I am reading and enjoying maybe three inches away from my hand, how could the idea of stopping reading this story right there and going back to the book not flit across my mind? “But the unsettling part is that, with him kneeling, it happens that his face is weirdly close to the zipper of her pants-he didn’t do this on purpose, she doesn’t think, but his face is maybe three inches away-so how could the idea of him performing oral sex on her not flit across her mind?” So I’ll just briefly note that while I was unimpressed from the first paragraph (and distracted by the weirdness of using the present tense, but pointing out that the story takes place in 2015 so we know it is not set today, a detail that only matters when she later says, “There’s no way Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for President.”), I knew there was no hope of the story winning me over in the end when I got to this line: I found it quite poor quality from start to finish and I don’t feel like just venting at it or thinking much more about the story to articulate the problems I had with it in detail. I was not sure if I wanted to comment at all on this story.
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